Synopses & Reviews
Dick Davis's third collection, in which his distinctive personal rhythms spring from the controlled use of classical forms. For all their air of ordered, calmly paced craft, his poems delve into the inexplicable with an acute sense of the complexities of human nature and a fine intuition. Thom Gunn wrote of his first collection: "The style is firm, totally without pretension, but all art... His handling of (metre) is masterful, and you are never aware of effort. And the language is exact but relentless, like the perceptions. On the basis of this book, I would say that Davis is one of the best poets around".